tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20709534.post3967198907738963423..comments2016-12-07T20:49:22.792-06:00Comments on Geographic Travels: Potsdam Conference's Geography of BetrayalCatholicgauzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622737803852974030noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20709534.post-76961149234700738802007-07-18T08:46:00.000-05:002007-07-18T08:46:00.000-05:00No disagreement with learning lessons from Potsdam...No disagreement with learning lessons from Potsdam - I just think we disagree on what those lessons are! If you see Potsdam as a short-term solution with long-term problems, I see it as a short-term failure leading to a long-term success in 1989.<BR/><BR/>And of course, no disagreement with your last sentence.Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05953649845499754508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20709534.post-85555869078156672382007-07-18T05:17:00.000-05:002007-07-18T05:17:00.000-05:00One last note. Does anyone here dispute my final ...One last note. Does anyone here dispute my final conclusion of "<BR/>So on the sixty-second anniversary of the beginning of Potsdam, let us all remember that short term solution can cause long term problems. But more importantly, let us leave no world citizen behind."Catholicgauzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622737803852974030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20709534.post-8710844066099628562007-07-18T05:16:00.000-05:002007-07-18T05:16:00.000-05:00Anonymous, The long running debate on Roosevelt's...Anonymous,<BR/> The long running debate on Roosevelt's health continues <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html" REL="nofollow">[1]</A>. Also, Roosevelt was slowly dying since his last reelection <A HREF="http://healthmedialab.com/exhibits-p-roosevelt.php" REL="nofollow">[2]</A>.<BR/><BR/> Hiss was not the adviser to Roosevelt but he was part of the US team concerning the United Nations at the conference. <BR/><BR/> Firmly counter to the Soviets? Like giving them extra votes at the UN?Catholicgauzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622737803852974030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20709534.post-22652473803841751392007-07-18T03:38:00.000-05:002007-07-18T03:38:00.000-05:00What a numbskull. There is no evidence at all to s...What a numbskull. There is no evidence at all to show that FDR was in a "weakened state" at Yalta, nor did he concede anything. He died of a stroke, for Christ's sake, an event which could take anyone at any time. Nor was Alger Hiss his advisor. Where in God's name did you get that? Hiss was a very junior assistant at Yalta and was in no position to advise the President on anything. And, by the way, every position Hiss did take at Yalta - presented to the Sec. of State - ran firmly counter to Soviet interests. So much for the Soviet agent. Do you get your history from a comic book?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20709534.post-85806493001242820682007-07-17T19:49:00.000-05:002007-07-17T19:49:00.000-05:00I do not make any claim about roll back. However,...I do not make any claim about roll back. However, Patton thought it possible... only with unreasonably high costs. My post is more of an angry rant against the powers of be in the West that abandoned the legitimate pre-War governments-in-exile while thinking Stalin would be a fair overseer.Catholicgauzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14622737803852974030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20709534.post-48460650552385384312007-07-17T16:12:00.000-05:002007-07-17T16:12:00.000-05:00"...the abandonment of Eastern Europe to Communism..."...the abandonment of Eastern Europe to Communism."<BR/><BR/>What Adrian said. <BR/><BR/>The Red Army took the place by force of arms. The British were willing to do a "spheres of influence" deal, Churchill's famous "percentages formula", which Stalin checked with his famous blue pencil -- same one he used to check off the execution lists.<BR/><BR/>FDR and Truman insisted on human rights language and guarantees of democratic elections. This was a forlorn hope, but it was playing the long game. Eventually it worked. Only the USA kept the hope alive.<BR/><BR/>No scrap of paper was going to roll back the Red Army in 1945.Lexington Greennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20709534.post-56615970752858657992007-07-17T08:49:00.000-05:002007-07-17T08:49:00.000-05:00What's your source on your implicit claim that the...What's your source on your implicit claim that the United States and Britain would have been able to roll the Soviet Union back from Eastern Europe? Saying that the US and UK "gave half of Europe" away implies that they had it to begin with, when it was occupied by millions of soldiers in the Red Army. Potsdam recognized the facts on the ground.<BR/><BR/>Also during the Cold War historically it was the Soviet Union who wanted a united and neutral Germany - it was the US/UK/NATO who kept Germany divided in order to keep West Germany in the NATO alliance.Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05953649845499754508noreply@blogger.com